You can have calibre auto import from a folder. Though be careful because it deletes them from that folder (you might want to do single direction sync into that folder).

And if you share the db with calibre-web or have some other sync method that works, you should be good to go.

Yes, they share the database. Yes, I add the books to calibre. I think I have it as read only for calibre-web.

Regarding overcomplication, I admit the initial setup took a while. But I’ve had it running for a couple years now with no major issues.

There’s a docker that essentially sets up a web VNC for Calibre. I do this for file conversion, DRM removal (only books I buy), etc.

Then I use Calibre-web for the OPDS server and nice web UI.

Funny enough one of the best use cases I have found has been for information retrievel then generation.

Spot on. And not just baked into the model but also extracted from the code base.

Roo + Claude can find the code I want, make flow charts, etc.

Similarly, I use it as a super search tool for my notes I take in Markdown.

And lastly, meeting transcription + custom AI summary is very helpful as a starting point.

All of these are similar in that they don’t need to be 100% accurate. They’re a starting point to save me time and find stuff I may have missed or forgotten. The actual decisions and brain work are done by me.

As for actual code generation, I’m not fully sold yet. I use it situationally, but no PR review will be able to tell because I make sure anything it generates is exactly how I would have written it. That sounds weird, but what I mean is I either use it as “super auto complete” for small stuff or I have it build a draft and heavily edit it until it is good code that I understand completely.

(Senior dev with over 10 years of experience.)

Honestly, this whole thing surprises me. I have a lot of respect for Ars Technica. I hope they clean this up and prevent further issues in the future.

I’ve been looking into this as well and just bought my first components.

I’m trying Meshtastic first and then will try Meshcore.

What does everybody think of Reticulum Network and RNode? It honestly seems superior conceptually to Meshtastic/Meshcore, but I’m not sure how good it is in practice or if anybody is actually using it.